Well, we certainly need to raise the retirement age. I've told my 19-year-old and my 22-year-old that they're not going to be getting retirement benefits at age 62.

I don't believe in deadlines, I don't believe in telling the enemy when we're going to withdraw.

A consumption tax, a national sales tax makes some sense. But I think that if we move towards a Fair Tax, if we move towards a national sales tax, we have to make sure that we do away with the income tax.

We've got to make sure our younger workers understand that as life expectancy increases, the retirement date for benefits increases also.

While I think the earth is warming, I don't think that man-made causes are the primary factor.

In my political career, I'd like to see a constitutional balanced budget amendment.

If 'extreme' means that I am unwilling to go to Washington, D.C., and do what President Obama tells me, then so be it. But I am certainly not going to Washington, D.C. to represent the interests of D.C. I'm going there to represent Colorado values.